PHOTOS: Father Of The Bride Sees The Man He’s Looking For… Stops Wedding And Grabs Him

Just before the father of an Ohio bride walked his daughter down the aisle, he stopped the ceremony and walked over to the most unlikely of people.

Without warning, Todd Bachman grabbed his daughter’s stepfather and asked him to help give away their daughter, Brittany Peck.

Bachman is Peck’s biological father. After he and Peck’s mother separated, her mother married Todd Cendrosky, making him Peck’s stepfather and an influential person in her life.

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The thoughtful father knew how much Cendrosky had helped raise his daughter and the positive influence he had on her as she grew up. Bachman believed it was only right that the two men share in the special tradition of walking theirdaughter down the aisle.

Peck had thoughtfully warned the photographer to “be ready,” just before the wedding started.

Cendrosky had no idea what Bachman was planning or what was going on when Bachman tugged on his arm during the procession.

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“He came and grabbed my hand, and said, ‘You worked as hard as I have. You’ll help us walk our daughter down the aisle,’” said Cendrosky. “I got weak in the knees and lost it. Nothing better in my life, the most impactful moment in my life.”

Blackburn captured the emotional moment between the two fathers in several photographs, then posted them to her business’s Facebook page.

“Not a dry eye at the ceremony … including me!” Blackburn wrote in the Facebook post, sharing the photos of Peck with one father on each side, and of the two men embracing each other afterwards.

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The photos and the story of what happened went viral almost instantly. In the first 30 hours, they received over 12 million views, and almost half a million shares. Those numbers have continued to increase considerably since then.

Bachman said he didn’t know the moment would go viral like that. He just wanted to do something special for his daughter’s big day.

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“For me to thank him for all the years of helping raise our daughter wouldn’t be enough,” he said. “There is no better way to thank somebody than to assist me walking her down the aisle.”